Events & Workshops

Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, War Horse is the powerful story of a young boy called Albert and his beloved horse, Joey, who has been requisitioned to fight for the British in World War I. Caught in enemy crossfire, Joey ends up serving on both sides during the war before landing in No Man's Land, while Albert, not old enough to enlist, embarks on a treacherous mission to find his horse and bring him home.

Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, War Horse is the powerful story of a young boy called Albert and his beloved horse, Joey, who has been requisitioned to fight for the British in World War I. Caught in enemy crossfire, Joey ends up serving on both sides during the war before landing in No Man's Land, while Albert, not old enough to enlist, embarks on a treacherous mission to find his horse and bring him home.

Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, War Horse is the powerful story of a young boy called Albert and his beloved horse, Joey, who has been requisitioned to fight for the British in World War I. Caught in enemy crossfire, Joey ends up serving on both sides during the war before landing in No Man's Land, while Albert, not old enough to enlist, embarks on a treacherous mission to find his horse and bring him home.

Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, War Horse is the powerful story of a young boy called Albert and his beloved horse, Joey, who has been requisitioned to fight for the British in World War I. Caught in enemy crossfire, Joey ends up serving on both sides during the war before landing in No Man's Land, while Albert, not old enough to enlist, embarks on a treacherous mission to find his horse and bring him home.

This comic tragedy riffs on the idea of pain- from paper cuts and stubbed toes to name-calling and racism. Created by the cast, it is a reflection on the role of pain in our lives, communicated through slapstick, song, cheers, and dance. From the silly to the profound, pain is there to tell you that there's something wrong.

The EmersonTHEATRE Playmaking Project (ETPP) is a program in which Boston area high school students (grades 9-12) develop and perform original pieces through playmaking focused on issues that affect their lives. Playmaking uses a variety of theatre structures, such as improvisation, character exploration, scene work, movement and monologue.

Gilad was Israeli Stage's second playwright-in-residence (March – April, 2015), when his play Ulysses on Bottles received its North American Premiere Production, produced by Israeli Stage in association with ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage. Gilad passed of a heart attack this November, leaving behind his loving family.

This tribute to Gilad Evron will commemorate the work of this great artist with selected scenes from three of his plays (Don Quixote, Ulysses on Bottles and On the Road to Tipaza) read by members of the cast of Israeli Stage's Ulysses on Bottles; Ken Cheeseman*, Jeremiah Kissel*, Will Lyman* and Karen MacDonald*. Remarks will be made by Producing Aristic Director of Israeli Stage Guy Ben-Aharon, Emerson College Dean of the Institute of Liberal Arts Amy Ansell, Ambassador Council Member Bruce Steiner, and Ulysses on Bottles Sound Designer Dave Remedios.

The Center for Health & Wellness (CHW) sponsors several immunization clinics monthly. Students have an opportunity to obtain/complete any of the Pre- matriculation entrance immunization requirements, in addition other non-requred but recommended vaccines for prevention of HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) as well as Meningococcal Disease are also available during the posted Immunization Clinic dates/times.

TB skin testing is available for students who screened to be at risk on the entrance risk assessment as well as students who require testing for CSD clinical placement.

See the Ecampus Announcement for specific details and Immunization Fees

1980. Communist Budapest. In a dance hall, a musician confesses his private sexual desire for his seven-year-old step-daughter. And his government is taping his every word. Under threat of being exposed as a pedophile, the musician is pressured into becoming a government informant leading to the arrest and murder of his best friend who had been running an anti-Communism underground newspaper.

Under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's increasingly nationalist government, Hungary's cultural scene has been rocked by a rapid return to government control of artistic choice. Béla Pintér and Company is dedicated to creating contemporary productions based on critical and ironic observations of Hungarian society. Employing the company's signature theatrical style, Our Secrets is an epic tale combining folk music, dance, staggering ensemble work, and no-holds-barred theatricality to tell a story of what it is to live between a rock and a hard place in a world where there is no such thing as a right to privacy.

1980. Communist Budapest. In a dance hall, a musician confesses his private sexual desire for his seven-year-old step-daughter. And his government is taping his every word. Under threat of being exposed as a pedophile, the musician is pressured into becoming a government informant leading to the arrest and murder of his best friend who had been running an anti-Communism underground newspaper.

Under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's increasingly nationalist government, Hungary's cultural scene has been rocked by a rapid return to government control of artistic choice. Béla Pintér and Company is dedicated to creating contemporary productions based on critical and ironic observations of Hungarian society. Employing the company's signature theatrical style, Our Secrets is an epic tale combining folk music, dance, staggering ensemble work, and no-holds-barred theatricality to tell a story of what it is to live between a rock and a hard place in a world where there is no such thing as a right to privacy.

1980. Communist Budapest. In a dance hall, a musician confesses his private sexual desire for his seven-year-old step-daughter. And his government is taping his every word. Under threat of being exposed as a pedophile, the musician is pressured into becoming a government informant leading to the arrest and murder of his best friend who had been running an anti-Communism underground newspaper.

Under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's increasingly nationalist government, Hungary's cultural scene has been rocked by a rapid return to government control of artistic choice. Béla Pintér and Company is dedicated to creating contemporary productions based on critical and ironic observations of Hungarian society. Employing the company's signature theatrical style, Our Secrets is an epic tale combining folk music, dance, staggering ensemble work, and no-holds-barred theatricality to tell a story of what it is to live between a rock and a hard place in a world where there is no such thing as a right to privacy.

1980. Communist Budapest. In a dance hall, a musician confesses his private sexual desire for his seven-year-old step-daughter. And his government is taping his every word. Under threat of being exposed as a pedophile, the musician is pressured into becoming a government informant leading to the arrest and murder of his best friend who had been running an anti-Communism underground newspaper.

Under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's increasingly nationalist government, Hungary's cultural scene has been rocked by a rapid return to government control of artistic choice. Béla Pintér and Company is dedicated to creating contemporary productions based on critical and ironic observations of Hungarian society. Employing the company's signature theatrical style, Our Secrets is an epic tale combining folk music, dance, staggering ensemble work, and no-holds-barred theatricality to tell a story of what it is to live between a rock and a hard place in a world where there is no such thing as a right to privacy.

Join Stanley Hauerwas of Duke University for a lecture on this fascinating topic as a part of the Adventures in Ethics Series, "On Religion."

On Religion is the 2016–2017 theme of Adventures in Ethics. It is the third iteration of a multi–year lecture series co-directed by Pablo Muchnik and David Kishik, with Thomas Cooper as an advising partner. It is made possible by the generous support of Patti Wheeler Hindery and the academic leadership at Emerson College.

In a small house in the mountains of Ireland, a lonely spinster locks horns with her house-bound, manipulative mother in a rage-filled battle of the wills. Ireland's most important contemporary playwright, Martin McDonagh's (The Pillowman, The Cripple of Inishmaan) The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a subversive thriller that takes audiences through the twists and turns of the ultimate dysfunctional relationship, revealing what can happen when family ties go too far…way too far.

Twenty years ago, the Druid Theatre Company's production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane rocked America and Broadway and was nominated for six Tony awards and won four. Druid returns with Tony Award® winning director, Garry Hynes remount of this spectacular production. Marie Mullen, who won the Tony for her performance as the daughter, returns this time in the role of the mother, while Aisling O'Sullivan takes the role of the daughter. Once again, audiences will have the opportunity to experience this masterful play.

In a small house in the mountains of Ireland, a lonely spinster locks horns with her house-bound, manipulative mother in a rage-filled battle of the wills. Ireland's most important contemporary playwright, Martin McDonagh's (The Pillowman, The Cripple of Inishmaan) The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a subversive thriller that takes audiences through the twists and turns of the ultimate dysfunctional relationship, revealing what can happen when family ties go too far…way too far.

Twenty years ago, the Druid Theatre Company's production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane rocked America and Broadway and was nominated for six Tony awards and won four. Druid returns with Tony Award® winning director, Garry Hynes remount of this spectacular production. Marie Mullen, who won the Tony for her performance as the daughter, returns this time in the role of the mother, while Aisling O'Sullivan takes the role of the daughter. Once again, audiences will have the opportunity to experience this masterful play.

In a small house in the mountains of Ireland, a lonely spinster locks horns with her house-bound, manipulative mother in a rage-filled battle of the wills. Ireland's most important contemporary playwright, Martin McDonagh's (The Pillowman, The Cripple of Inishmaan) The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a subversive thriller that takes audiences through the twists and turns of the ultimate dysfunctional relationship, revealing what can happen when family ties go too far…way too far.

Twenty years ago, the Druid Theatre Company's production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane rocked America and Broadway and was nominated for six Tony awards and won four. Druid returns with Tony Award® winning director, Garry Hynes remount of this spectacular production. Marie Mullen, who won the Tony for her performance as the daughter, returns this time in the role of the mother, while Aisling O'Sullivan takes the role of the daughter. Once again, audiences will have the opportunity to experience this masterful play.

In a small house in the mountains of Ireland, a lonely spinster locks horns with her house-bound, manipulative mother in a rage-filled battle of the wills. Ireland's most important contemporary playwright, Martin McDonagh's (The Pillowman, The Cripple of Inishmaan) The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a subversive thriller that takes audiences through the twists and turns of the ultimate dysfunctional relationship, revealing what can happen when family ties go too far…way too far.

Twenty years ago, the Druid Theatre Company's production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane rocked America and Broadway and was nominated for six Tony awards and won four. Druid returns with Tony Award® winning director, Garry Hynes remount of this spectacular production. Marie Mullen, who won the Tony for her performance as the daughter, returns this time in the role of the mother, while Aisling O'Sullivan takes the role of the daughter. Once again, audiences will have the opportunity to experience this masterful play.

In a small house in the mountains of Ireland, a lonely spinster locks horns with her house-bound, manipulative mother in a rage-filled battle of the wills. Ireland's most important contemporary playwright, Martin McDonagh's (The Pillowman, The Cripple of Inishmaan) The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a subversive thriller that takes audiences through the twists and turns of the ultimate dysfunctional relationship, revealing what can happen when family ties go too far…way too far.

Twenty years ago, the Druid Theatre Company's production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane rocked America and Broadway and was nominated for six Tony awards and won four. Druid returns with Tony Award® winning director, Garry Hynes remount of this spectacular production. Marie Mullen, who won the Tony for her performance as the daughter, returns this time in the role of the mother, while Aisling O'Sullivan takes the role of the daughter. Once again, audiences will have the opportunity to experience this masterful play.

In a small house in the mountains of Ireland, a lonely spinster locks horns with her house-bound, manipulative mother in a rage-filled battle of the wills. Ireland's most important contemporary playwright, Martin McDonagh's (The Pillowman, The Cripple of Inishmaan) The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a subversive thriller that takes audiences through the twists and turns of the ultimate dysfunctional relationship, revealing what can happen when family ties go too far…way too far.

Twenty years ago, the Druid Theatre Company's production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane rocked America and Broadway and was nominated for six Tony awards and won four. Druid returns with Tony Award® winning director, Garry Hynes remount of this spectacular production. Marie Mullen, who won the Tony for her performance as the daughter, returns this time in the role of the mother, while Aisling O'Sullivan takes the role of the daughter. Once again, audiences will have the opportunity to experience this masterful play.

In a small house in the mountains of Ireland, a lonely spinster locks horns with her house-bound, manipulative mother in a rage-filled battle of the wills. Ireland's most important contemporary playwright, Martin McDonagh's (The Pillowman, The Cripple of Inishmaan) The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a subversive thriller that takes audiences through the twists and turns of the ultimate dysfunctional relationship, revealing what can happen when family ties go too far…way too far.

Twenty years ago, the Druid Theatre Company's production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane rocked America and Broadway and was nominated for six Tony awards and won four. Druid returns with Tony Award® winning director, Garry Hynes remount of this spectacular production. Marie Mullen, who won the Tony for her performance as the daughter, returns this time in the role of the mother, while Aisling O'Sullivan takes the role of the daughter. Once again, audiences will have the opportunity to experience this masterful play.

In a small house in the mountains of Ireland, a lonely spinster locks horns with her house-bound, manipulative mother in a rage-filled battle of the wills. Ireland's most important contemporary playwright, Martin McDonagh's (The Pillowman, The Cripple of Inishmaan) The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a subversive thriller that takes audiences through the twists and turns of the ultimate dysfunctional relationship, revealing what can happen when family ties go too far…way too far.

Twenty years ago, the Druid Theatre Company's production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane rocked America and Broadway and was nominated for six Tony awards and won four. Druid returns with Tony Award® winning director, Garry Hynes remount of this spectacular production. Marie Mullen, who won the Tony for her performance as the daughter, returns this time in the role of the mother, while Aisling O'Sullivan takes the role of the daughter. Once again, audiences will have the opportunity to experience this masterful play.

In a small house in the mountains of Ireland, a lonely spinster locks horns with her house-bound, manipulative mother in a rage-filled battle of the wills. Ireland's most important contemporary playwright, Martin McDonagh's (The Pillowman, The Cripple of Inishmaan) The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a subversive thriller that takes audiences through the twists and turns of the ultimate dysfunctional relationship, revealing what can happen when family ties go too far…way too far.

Twenty years ago, the Druid Theatre Company's production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane rocked America and Broadway and was nominated for six Tony awards and won four. Druid returns with Tony Award® winning director, Garry Hynes remount of this spectacular production. Marie Mullen, who won the Tony for her performance as the daughter, returns this time in the role of the mother, while Aisling O'Sullivan takes the role of the daughter. Once again, audiences will have the opportunity to experience this masterful play.

In a small house in the mountains of Ireland, a lonely spinster locks horns with her house-bound, manipulative mother in a rage-filled battle of the wills. Ireland's most important contemporary playwright, Martin McDonagh's (The Pillowman, The Cripple of Inishmaan) The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a subversive thriller that takes audiences through the twists and turns of the ultimate dysfunctional relationship, revealing what can happen when family ties go too far…way too far.

Twenty years ago, the Druid Theatre Company's production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane rocked America and Broadway and was nominated for six Tony awards and won four. Druid returns with Tony Award® winning director, Garry Hynes remount of this spectacular production. Marie Mullen, who won the Tony for her performance as the daughter, returns this time in the role of the mother, while Aisling O'Sullivan takes the role of the daughter. Once again, audiences will have the opportunity to experience this masterful play.

Douglas Whynott has written five nonfiction books. The Sugar Season was selected as one of the best books of 2014 by the Boston Globe and won the GreenBook Festival Award for writing about the environment. His other books are Following the Bloom, a profile of a migratory beekeeper and the beekeeping industry; Giant Bluefin, an account of the tuna fishery on Cape Cod; A Unit of Water, A Unit of Time, a story of a boatyard in Maine owned by the acclaimed boat designer Joel White; and A Country Practice, a story about a mixed animal practice vet clinic in a small New Hampshire town. In 2013 he was a Fulbright Scholar at Universidad Nacional in Bogota, Colombia. He has written for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the Massachusetts Review, Crazyhorse, Writer's Chronicle and other publications.

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich's first book The Fact of a Body is forthcoming from Flatiron Books. In 2014, she received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award. She was twice a fellow at both MacDowell and yadoo. Marzano-Lesnevich also received fellowships from the Millay Colony for the Arts, as well as the Alice Hayes Fellowship for Social Justice Writing from the Ragdale Foundation, and a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference. Her essays and articles have appeard in The New York Times, Iowa Review, Oxford American, Los Angeles Review, The Rumpus and others. She currently teaches memoir writing at Grub Street and graduate public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

A genre-defying work of political theatre, Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower brings to rousing musical life Butler's acclaimed science fiction novel of the same name. Written by Toshi Reagon, who Vibe Magazine called "one helluva rock'n'roller-coaster ride," in collaboration with her mother, Bernice Johnson Reagon, the iconic singer and founder of the vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock, Parable of the Sower becomes a mesmerizing theatrical work of rare power and beauty that reveals deep insights on gender, race and the future of human civilization.

Parable of the Sower harnesses 200 years of African-American song traditions to tell the story of young Lauren Olamina, who lives in a not-so-distant America, where climate change has driven society to violence and the brink of extinction. When she loses both family and home, Lauren ventures out unprotected. What begins as a desperate flight for survival leads to something much more – a startling vision of human destiny which births "Earthseed," a new faith-based on the idea that "God is Change."

A genre-defying work of political theatre, Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower brings to rousing musical life Butler's acclaimed science fiction novel of the same name. Written by Toshi Reagon, who Vibe Magazine called "one helluva rock'n'roller-coaster ride," in collaboration with her mother, Bernice Johnson Reagon, the iconic singer and founder of the vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock, Parable of the Sower becomes a mesmerizing theatrical work of rare power and beauty that reveals deep insights on gender, race and the future of human civilization.

Parable of the Sower harnesses 200 years of African-American song traditions to tell the story of young Lauren Olamina, who lives in a not-so-distant America, where climate change has driven society to violence and the brink of extinction. When she loses both family and home, Lauren ventures out unprotected. What begins as a desperate flight for survival leads to something much more – a startling vision of human destiny which births "Earthseed," a new faith-based on the idea that "God is Change."

A genre-defying work of political theatre, Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower brings to rousing musical life Butler's acclaimed science fiction novel of the same name. Written by Toshi Reagon, who Vibe Magazine called "one helluva rock'n'roller-coaster ride," in collaboration with her mother, Bernice Johnson Reagon, the iconic singer and founder of the vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock, Parable of the Sower becomes a mesmerizing theatrical work of rare power and beauty that reveals deep insights on gender, race and the future of human civilization.

Parable of the Sower harnesses 200 years of African-American song traditions to tell the story of young Lauren Olamina, who lives in a not-so-distant America, where climate change has driven society to violence and the brink of extinction. When she loses both family and home, Lauren ventures out unprotected. What begins as a desperate flight for survival leads to something much more – a startling vision of human destiny which births "Earthseed," a new faith-based on the idea that "God is Change."

A genre-defying work of political theatre, Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower brings to rousing musical life Butler's acclaimed science fiction novel of the same name. Written by Toshi Reagon, who Vibe Magazine called "one helluva rock'n'roller-coaster ride," in collaboration with her mother, Bernice Johnson Reagon, the iconic singer and founder of the vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock, Parable of the Sower becomes a mesmerizing theatrical work of rare power and beauty that reveals deep insights on gender, race and the future of human civilization.

Parable of the Sower harnesses 200 years of African-American song traditions to tell the story of young Lauren Olamina, who lives in a not-so-distant America, where climate change has driven society to violence and the brink of extinction. When she loses both family and home, Lauren ventures out unprotected. What begins as a desperate flight for survival leads to something much more – a startling vision of human destiny which births "Earthseed," a new faith-based on the idea that "God is Change."

Join Kevin Vallier of Bowling Green State University for a lecture on this fascinating topic as a part of the Adventures in Ethics Series, "On Religion."

On Religion is the 2016–2017 theme of Adventures in Ethics. It is the third iteration of a multi–year lecture series co-directed by Pablo Muchnik and David Kishik, with Thomas Cooper as an advising partner. It is made possible by the generous support of Patti Wheeler Hindery and the academic leadership at Emerson College.

The history of passports, smuggling Kentucky Fried Chicken into other countries, and the peculiarities of airline security—it's all covered in this miraculous, one-man saga that unpacks how the mundane details that govern global travel become the actual journey.

17 Border Crossings is a surreal sojourn that transports us to very real places: Hungary, Serbia, Morocco, Colombia, Holland and Mexico, to name a few. In the deft, mischievous manner of the trickster, Phillips manages to float huge questions that surround the fraught migrations of our era.

With all the childlike curiosity and adult skepticism of monologist Spalding Gray, and the theatrical wizardry of a Robert Lepage, Thaddeus Phillips takes audiences by the hand on a trip around the world and shows us that when we cross the imaginary lines that divide up the world, the real borders come to light. Find tickets »

Religion, Power and Politics Beyond the Nation-State

Apr2020174:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Little BuildingCharles Beard Room

Sponsored by Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies with Academic Affairs, School of the Arts, School of Communication

Join Elizabeth Hurd of Northwestern University for a lecture on this fascinating topic as a part of the Adventures in Ethics Series, "On Religion."

On Religion is the 2016–2017 theme of Adventures in Ethics. It is the third iteration of a multi–year lecture series co-directed by Pablo Muchnik and David Kishik, with Thomas Cooper as an advising partner. It is made possible by the generous support of Patti Wheeler Hindery and the academic leadership at Emerson College.

The history of passports, smuggling Kentucky Fried Chicken into other countries, and the peculiarities of airline security—it's all covered in this miraculous, one-man saga that unpacks how the mundane details that govern global travel become the actual journey.

17 Border Crossings is a surreal sojourn that transports us to very real places: Hungary, Serbia, Morocco, Colombia, Holland and Mexico, to name a few. In the deft, mischievous manner of the trickster, Phillips manages to float huge questions that surround the fraught migrations of our era.

With all the childlike curiosity and adult skepticism of monologist Spalding Gray, and the theatrical wizardry of a Robert Lepage, Thaddeus Phillips takes audiences by the hand on a trip around the world and shows us that when we cross the imaginary lines that divide up the world, the real borders come to light. Find tickets »

The history of passports, smuggling Kentucky Fried Chicken into other countries, and the peculiarities of airline security—it's all covered in this miraculous, one-man saga that unpacks how the mundane details that govern global travel become the actual journey.

17 Border Crossings is a surreal sojourn that transports us to very real places: Hungary, Serbia, Morocco, Colombia, Holland and Mexico, to name a few. In the deft, mischievous manner of the trickster, Phillips manages to float huge questions that surround the fraught migrations of our era.

With all the childlike curiosity and adult skepticism of monologist Spalding Gray, and the theatrical wizardry of a Robert Lepage, Thaddeus Phillips takes audiences by the hand on a trip around the world and shows us that when we cross the imaginary lines that divide up the world, the real borders come to light. Find tickets »

The history of passports, smuggling Kentucky Fried Chicken into other countries, and the peculiarities of airline security—it's all covered in this miraculous, one-man saga that unpacks how the mundane details that govern global travel become the actual journey.

17 Border Crossings is a surreal sojourn that transports us to very real places: Hungary, Serbia, Morocco, Colombia, Holland and Mexico, to name a few. In the deft, mischievous manner of the trickster, Phillips manages to float huge questions that surround the fraught migrations of our era.

With all the childlike curiosity and adult skepticism of monologist Spalding Gray, and the theatrical wizardry of a Robert Lepage, Thaddeus Phillips takes audiences by the hand on a trip around the world and shows us that when we cross the imaginary lines that divide up the world, the real borders come to light. Find tickets »

The history of passports, smuggling Kentucky Fried Chicken into other countries, and the peculiarities of airline security—it's all covered in this miraculous, one-man saga that unpacks how the mundane details that govern global travel become the actual journey.

17 Border Crossings is a surreal sojourn that transports us to very real places: Hungary, Serbia, Morocco, Colombia, Holland and Mexico, to name a few. In the deft, mischievous manner of the trickster, Phillips manages to float huge questions that surround the fraught migrations of our era.

With all the childlike curiosity and adult skepticism of monologist Spalding Gray, and the theatrical wizardry of a Robert Lepage, Thaddeus Phillips takes audiences by the hand on a trip around the world and shows us that when we cross the imaginary lines that divide up the world, the real borders come to light. Find tickets »

The history of passports, smuggling Kentucky Fried Chicken into other countries, and the peculiarities of airline security—it's all covered in this miraculous, one-man saga that unpacks how the mundane details that govern global travel become the actual journey.

17 Border Crossings is a surreal sojourn that transports us to very real places: Hungary, Serbia, Morocco, Colombia, Holland and Mexico, to name a few. In the deft, mischievous manner of the trickster, Phillips manages to float huge questions that surround the fraught migrations of our era.

With all the childlike curiosity and adult skepticism of monologist Spalding Gray, and the theatrical wizardry of a Robert Lepage, Thaddeus Phillips takes audiences by the hand on a trip around the world and shows us that when we cross the imaginary lines that divide up the world, the real borders come to light. Find tickets »

The history of passports, smuggling Kentucky Fried Chicken into other countries, and the peculiarities of airline security—it's all covered in this miraculous, one-man saga that unpacks how the mundane details that govern global travel become the actual journey.

17 Border Crossings is a surreal sojourn that transports us to very real places: Hungary, Serbia, Morocco, Colombia, Holland and Mexico, to name a few. In the deft, mischievous manner of the trickster, Phillips manages to float huge questions that surround the fraught migrations of our era.

With all the childlike curiosity and adult skepticism of monologist Spalding Gray, and the theatrical wizardry of a Robert Lepage, Thaddeus Phillips takes audiences by the hand on a trip around the world and shows us that when we cross the imaginary lines that divide up the world, the real borders come to light. Find tickets »

The history of passports, smuggling Kentucky Fried Chicken into other countries, and the peculiarities of airline security—it's all covered in this miraculous, one-man saga that unpacks how the mundane details that govern global travel become the actual journey.

17 Border Crossings is a surreal sojourn that transports us to very real places: Hungary, Serbia, Morocco, Colombia, Holland and Mexico, to name a few. In the deft, mischievous manner of the trickster, Phillips manages to float huge questions that surround the fraught migrations of our era.

With all the childlike curiosity and adult skepticism of monologist Spalding Gray, and the theatrical wizardry of a Robert Lepage, Thaddeus Phillips takes audiences by the hand on a trip around the world and shows us that when we cross the imaginary lines that divide up the world, the real borders come to light. Find tickets »

The history of passports, smuggling Kentucky Fried Chicken into other countries, and the peculiarities of airline security—it's all covered in this miraculous, one-man saga that unpacks how the mundane details that govern global travel become the actual journey.

17 Border Crossings is a surreal sojourn that transports us to very real places: Hungary, Serbia, Morocco, Colombia, Holland and Mexico, to name a few. In the deft, mischievous manner of the trickster, Phillips manages to float huge questions that surround the fraught migrations of our era.

With all the childlike curiosity and adult skepticism of monologist Spalding Gray, and the theatrical wizardry of a Robert Lepage, Thaddeus Phillips takes audiences by the hand on a trip around the world and shows us that when we cross the imaginary lines that divide up the world, the real borders come to light. Find tickets »

The history of passports, smuggling Kentucky Fried Chicken into other countries, and the peculiarities of airline security—it's all covered in this miraculous, one-man saga that unpacks how the mundane details that govern global travel become the actual journey.

17 Border Crossings is a surreal sojourn that transports us to very real places: Hungary, Serbia, Morocco, Colombia, Holland and Mexico, to name a few. In the deft, mischievous manner of the trickster, Phillips manages to float huge questions that surround the fraught migrations of our era.

With all the childlike curiosity and adult skepticism of monologist Spalding Gray, and the theatrical wizardry of a Robert Lepage, Thaddeus Phillips takes audiences by the hand on a trip around the world and shows us that when we cross the imaginary lines that divide up the world, the real borders come to light. Find tickets »

In a living room strewn with vinyl records, beer bottles and drug paraphernalia, a mustached man begins railing about his missing copy of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album, and it seems he won't back down until the universe bestows upon him some elusive state of grace. Part Gonzo rock performance, part mental breakdown—all thrillingly theatrical—How To Be A Rock Critic pulls the greatest hits from Bangs' own legendary words to imagine a single night of his turbulent life.

Inside his wild, all-night typewriter sessions, Lester Bangs embraced mistakes as strokes of genius, popularized now ubiquitous terms like "Heavy Metal" and "Punk Rock," and died of an overdose at the Biblical age of 33. Join us for an evening with music's great, lost critical voice.

In a living room strewn with vinyl records, beer bottles and drug paraphernalia, a mustached man begins railing about his missing copy of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album, and it seems he won't back down until the universe bestows upon him some elusive state of grace. Part Gonzo rock performance, part mental breakdown—all thrillingly theatrical—How To Be A Rock Critic pulls the greatest hits from Bangs' own legendary words to imagine a single night of his turbulent life.

Inside his wild, all-night typewriter sessions, Lester Bangs embraced mistakes as strokes of genius, popularized now ubiquitous terms like "Heavy Metal" and "Punk Rock," and died of an overdose at the Biblical age of 33. Join us for an evening with music's great, lost critical voice.

In a living room strewn with vinyl records, beer bottles and drug paraphernalia, a mustached man begins railing about his missing copy of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album, and it seems he won't back down until the universe bestows upon him some elusive state of grace. Part Gonzo rock performance, part mental breakdown—all thrillingly theatrical—How To Be A Rock Critic pulls the greatest hits from Bangs' own legendary words to imagine a single night of his turbulent life.

Inside his wild, all-night typewriter sessions, Lester Bangs embraced mistakes as strokes of genius, popularized now ubiquitous terms like "Heavy Metal" and "Punk Rock," and died of an overdose at the Biblical age of 33. Join us for an evening with music's great, lost critical voice.

In a living room strewn with vinyl records, beer bottles and drug paraphernalia, a mustached man begins railing about his missing copy of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album, and it seems he won't back down until the universe bestows upon him some elusive state of grace. Part Gonzo rock performance, part mental breakdown—all thrillingly theatrical—How To Be A Rock Critic pulls the greatest hits from Bangs' own legendary words to imagine a single night of his turbulent life.

Inside his wild, all-night typewriter sessions, Lester Bangs embraced mistakes as strokes of genius, popularized now ubiquitous terms like "Heavy Metal" and "Punk Rock," and died of an overdose at the Biblical age of 33. Join us for an evening with music's great, lost critical voice.

In a living room strewn with vinyl records, beer bottles and drug paraphernalia, a mustached man begins railing about his missing copy of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album, and it seems he won't back down until the universe bestows upon him some elusive state of grace. Part Gonzo rock performance, part mental breakdown—all thrillingly theatrical—How To Be A Rock Critic pulls the greatest hits from Bangs' own legendary words to imagine a single night of his turbulent life.

Inside his wild, all-night typewriter sessions, Lester Bangs embraced mistakes as strokes of genius, popularized now ubiquitous terms like "Heavy Metal" and "Punk Rock," and died of an overdose at the Biblical age of 33. Join us for an evening with music's great, lost critical voice.

In a living room strewn with vinyl records, beer bottles and drug paraphernalia, a mustached man begins railing about his missing copy of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album, and it seems he won't back down until the universe bestows upon him some elusive state of grace. Part Gonzo rock performance, part mental breakdown—all thrillingly theatrical—How To Be A Rock Critic pulls the greatest hits from Bangs' own legendary words to imagine a single night of his turbulent life.

Inside his wild, all-night typewriter sessions, Lester Bangs embraced mistakes as strokes of genius, popularized now ubiquitous terms like "Heavy Metal" and "Punk Rock," and died of an overdose at the Biblical age of 33. Join us for an evening with music's great, lost critical voice.

In a living room strewn with vinyl records, beer bottles and drug paraphernalia, a mustached man begins railing about his missing copy of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album, and it seems he won't back down until the universe bestows upon him some elusive state of grace. Part Gonzo rock performance, part mental breakdown—all thrillingly theatrical—How To Be A Rock Critic pulls the greatest hits from Bangs' own legendary words to imagine a single night of his turbulent life.

Inside his wild, all-night typewriter sessions, Lester Bangs embraced mistakes as strokes of genius, popularized now ubiquitous terms like "Heavy Metal" and "Punk Rock," and died of an overdose at the Biblical age of 33. Join us for an evening with music's great, lost critical voice.

In a living room strewn with vinyl records, beer bottles and drug paraphernalia, a mustached man begins railing about his missing copy of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album, and it seems he won't back down until the universe bestows upon him some elusive state of grace. Part Gonzo rock performance, part mental breakdown—all thrillingly theatrical—How To Be A Rock Critic pulls the greatest hits from Bangs' own legendary words to imagine a single night of his turbulent life.

Inside his wild, all-night typewriter sessions, Lester Bangs embraced mistakes as strokes of genius, popularized now ubiquitous terms like "Heavy Metal" and "Punk Rock," and died of an overdose at the Biblical age of 33. Join us for an evening with music's great, lost critical voice.

In a living room strewn with vinyl records, beer bottles and drug paraphernalia, a mustached man begins railing about his missing copy of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album, and it seems he won't back down until the universe bestows upon him some elusive state of grace. Part Gonzo rock performance, part mental breakdown—all thrillingly theatrical—How To Be A Rock Critic pulls the greatest hits from Bangs' own legendary words to imagine a single night of his turbulent life.

Inside his wild, all-night typewriter sessions, Lester Bangs embraced mistakes as strokes of genius, popularized now ubiquitous terms like "Heavy Metal" and "Punk Rock," and died of an overdose at the Biblical age of 33. Join us for an evening with music's great, lost critical voice.

In a living room strewn with vinyl records, beer bottles and drug paraphernalia, a mustached man begins railing about his missing copy of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album, and it seems he won't back down until the universe bestows upon him some elusive state of grace. Part Gonzo rock performance, part mental breakdown—all thrillingly theatrical—How To Be A Rock Critic pulls the greatest hits from Bangs' own legendary words to imagine a single night of his turbulent life.

Inside his wild, all-night typewriter sessions, Lester Bangs embraced mistakes as strokes of genius, popularized now ubiquitous terms like "Heavy Metal" and "Punk Rock," and died of an overdose at the Biblical age of 33. Join us for an evening with music's great, lost critical voice.